Alexia Tarabotti, now Lady Maccon, awakens to find her werewolf husband yelling at the top of his lungs Then he disappears—leaving her to deal with a plethora of exorcised ghosts, and an angry Queen Victoria. But Alexia is armed with her trusty parasol, so even when her investigations take her into the backwaters of Scotland, she is prepared. She might even find time to track down her wayward husband, if she feels like it.